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frog in a sock en · NOUN

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1. (in similes) Something that is frantic.
   • I guarantee that if you make something really cool, her knickers'll be off quicker than a frog in a sock. 2014, Martin Gooch, I Made a Feature Film by Mistake, →ISBN, page 10:
   • They're still as cross as a frog in a sock about it. 2010, John Shors, The Wishing Trees, →ISBN:
   • Even though he was pissing her off mightily, his broad shoulders, tanned biceps and lock of black hair falling onto his forehead made her pulse jump like a frog in a sock. 2015, Joan Kilby, The Secret Son, →ISBN:
   • The conflict between desire and programming may explain the common myth (or as we Micks like to think, well-known fact) that Catholics go off like frogs in a sock in the sack. 2009, Catherine Deveny, Free to a Good Home, →ISBN, page 106:

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